Have you seen the * BIG * announcement? The best absolutely free WordPress plugin of all time – the all new CommentLuv is almost here:

You KNOW I LOVE CommentLuv – and so many others do that there are 42,847 registered users (as of midnight Jun 1, 2011) and it has been downloaded 331,233 times (also as of midnight Jun 1, 2011)!

How this new version works is really different – but it looks just the same. (You can see and use the new version in Stephanie’s Gardening Blog and I’ll get it installed here as soon as my techie experts can get it done.)

I am watching Andy Bailey’s highly entertaining Story of CommentLuv videos as they appear. You can too…if you watch the video above and then click the link at the end.

If you want to know more come watch the videos too and then check out my favorite CommentLuv links:

• How CommentLuv Grows Your Business or Blog
• How CommentLuv Works
• Best videos and posts about CommentLuv

Almost everyone in the world of Internet business is aware and knowledgeable of SEO and link building, but only a few know how to really make most of it. Why? It’s simple, it’s because most Internet marketers, bloggers, SEO practitioners, etc are already accustomed with the idea of links make your online business visible. Of course that is what everyone is really aiming at, more traffic.

But one thing that we all know – but we wouldn’t dare to touch – is the concept of constant evolution of Internet and search marketing, in which we are all scared to reinvent the existing wheel and experiment on something futuristic. Anyway, I wouldn’t really discuss super advanced methodologies here. I’ll just help explain how and why your web marketing plans should shift its fundamental principles to much greater heights, which means more power to your campaign and more profits to gain.

Build trust not links

Trust is never earned overnight. It takes months (even years at most), but the point is that your SEO campaign should always look for long-standing investments rather than focusing on the shortest way around in getting traffic and higher rankings. Taking things too fast will just make search engines suspect that your site is doing blackhat, and you don’t want that!

We often resort to easy to get links when it comes to link building, say you can get 20 high quality backlinks overnight through blog comments, forum postings, etc, but will those be of help in giving you the trust that real people and search engines seek? What I’m talking about is real value seen by both to consider your site as a good reference. A recommendation in which all that will see your link will be already well acquainted with what your site is offering even before reaching it.

Erase dofollow and nofollow in your vocabulary

When you are building trust, you don’t need link attributes such as nofollow and dofollow links! The only important thing is that you build your links from highly reputable, quality and best of all – topically relevant sites. Becoming an authority in your field needs a lot of work and it involves smart link building strategies. The best way to do this is to make sure that your link development efforts should look way more natural than the natural that we all know about (like anchor texts varies, have both dofollow and nofollow links built, etc…).

So how can you do this? Be choosy with the sites you are linking from. Choose the ones that will really emphasis “trust” in both the eyes of people and search engines. Abide from doing small time off-page SEO methodologies and concentrate on getting real value from your links.

Rich keyphrase anchor texts are desperate

When your site is already ranking for your targeted keywords, it always means that you are already relevant for that search term. But what’s lacking that you are still stuck on the second page or elsewhere? It’s the trust! They don’t trust you enough that’s why they are placing you behind as reserve. You don’t actually need to force search engines see that you are relevant to a certain search term through a huge amount of spammy anchor text links pointing to your site, because they already know that your page is pertaining to your desired keywords. What they need to see is if you can be trusted before they can start placing you to a much higher position, and it takes time to have that trust.

It’s best to use your own brand or just your name in building links once search engines already tagged your site as a candidate for your targeted keyword. But it’s also best to use your keywords as anchor texts whenever there’s a good opportunity to do so (I highly suggest on guest blogging and internal linking).

The Best Ways to build trust

Guest Blog Posting

1.    Make a list of authority websites related to your industry (with high PR, high keyword rankings, high Alexa traffic rank, good web design and have an excellent community)

2.    Try to contact them and request if you can write a guest post on their site

3.    Create a remarkable content wherein you can fully showcase your expertise about the field, in order to gain the trust of their readers.

4.    Put a solid call to action at every end of your posts.

5.    Be proud of your brand and make sure that it is included as your external link on your author bio box.

6.    Connect with their readers through blog comments once your entry is published on their blogs. And note, you don’t need to overdo backlinks from your responses.

Link Baiting/Highly Linkable Materials

1.    You can choose to post it on your own blog or on other popular/authority blogs.

2.    Make the content highly resourceful! Spill your secrets here and include results to make it more credible. These kinds of entries are usually composed of 1,000 words or greater. It doesn’t necessarily need to be too controversial, just be sure that the content has value to anyone who can read it.

3.    Market your posts. Share it through social media channels, high quality RSS feed directories (MyBlogLog and Feedage), reputable forums, Q&A sites (Yahoo Answers) and social bookmarking sites.

4.    Let other experts read it! Email it to them if you are confident about it, mention their name to get their attention, or whatever, just be sure that someone knowledgeable within your industry reads it to enhance your chances of spreading it to the community.

5.    If the post you’ve made is really topnotch that you think it will definitely be helpful to the community, then start contacting .edu and .gov sites to have that post included on their resources. It’s best to search for a specific page wherein your entry will really suit well, or perhaps make an article with the sole purpose of getting listed to .edu and .gov reference pages.

There are many other ways that you can do to build trust (free Ebooks and Reports); knowing that the best way to gain trust over the Internet is to give real value at first. If you want to know more about SEO and Link building, you may want to check out our our free 28 – lesson basic SEO course at SEO-Hacker that starts this December 1, 2010.

About the Author: Jason Acidre is an SEO Specialist for SEO-Hacker, an SEO Marketing company. Check out our 28-lesson Basic SEO Course that starts this December 1, 2010. Enrollment is free and real-time consultation is provided in the SEO Hacker Forums.

Click here to find out How CommentLuv Works

Bloggers and businesses alike may not realize how very important CommentLuv can be to them. By joining the CommentLuv community you can connect with many others interested in the same things you are.

The CommentLuv featured posts you see in blogs that have CommentLuv installed make it easy to see which other commentators (people leaving comments) write about what you are interested in. Clicking on those comments connects you instantly with them.

There are already niches forming within the more than 20,000+ 30,000+ 35,137+ (on Oct 7, 2010) – 38,550+ registered users of CommentLuv (as of March 17, 2011) 41,888 (as of May 15, 2011) and the CommentLuv commuity is growing rapidly.

Whether you have a blog or not it is important that you seek out bloggers who write about subjects near and dear to your heart which for business owners means those related to the products and services you have to offer.

BLOGGERS: Welcome business owners as readers and commentators.
Invite them to share their expertise as guest bloggers.
Their experience and knowledge makes your blog even better!
Remember that they have interests beyond what they do
and interesting things to say on other subjects.

Be tolerant of those new to commenting and Social Networking and guide them in what is appropriate behavior. I am certain we have all made mistakes when we first got online. Never assume they realize what they are doing until we first explain what is expected.

BUSINESSES:  Do not spam blogs.
Do not hire SEO companies to spam blogs.
Do not turn your comments into advertisements.
DO contribute to the discussion and share what you know.

FOCUS on blogs in your niche
whose readers would be interested in what you offer.
For example, if you sell pole chain saws, do most of your commenting
in home improvement and construction related blogs.

Let CommentLuv default links guide the blog owners and readers who are interested in what you offer to your site. Use the information about default links to register your business and select anchor text that creates beneficial backlinks without detracting from the blog where they appear.

I wrote the information below in reply to a question that Mike Criss, owner of the online printing company PrintingBlue posed in my post about KeywordLuv.

I was prompted to write this post to share what I told him with all my readers including those who rarely read the comments. I highly recommend you read comments here because I share as much in them as I post!

I will also answer any questions you leave or you can use my contact form to reach me via email. I would be happy to answer any specific questions you have.

To benefit from using CommentLuv and KeywordLuv you do not have
to have them installed but I DO recommend installing at least CommentLuv.

I strongly encourage all bloggers to install at least CommentLuv and all bloggers and business owners to register to use CommentLuv.

Not long I ago I would have encouraged all bloggers to install both but there is breaking news about new features in CommentLuv that I’ll include in this reply that may make KeywordLuv unnecessary.

My KeywordLuv post explains how you as a business owner can use blogs that have KeywordLuv installed to create dofollow backlinks that will allow your site to be found in the search engines. Now you can get the same benefits by being a valuable contributor in CommentLuv blogs.

Here are some additional resources that will help you do that best:

1. First you need to know what keyword phrases are important to you. I explain how to do that in my post about using anchor text links to build traffic and get found in the search engines.
2. When you create content you need to consistently use those keyword phrases. I explain where and how to use them in my post about selecting keywords first and then writing copy.
3. Since this post was written CommentLuv has added new features that allow bloggers and businesses to register default links that automatically create anchor text without having keywords in the name field (which many don’t really like). Read how to use CommentLuv default links for anchor text.
4. If you’re not familiar with CommentLuv also read How CommentLuv works.
5. For those who are concerned about PageRank see CommentLuv Does Not Seem to Leak Link Juice.

I strongly recommend all businesses and bloggers who want to survive the economic downturn that is NOT going to recover and IS going to get worse learn why it is inevitable that the economy is going to continue to slide (both in the U.S. and globally).

The solution is to support small businesses – both the ones online and in their local communities.

There is more about why supporting the marketing efforts of small and online businesses is critical in my post about Word of Mouth. Find out what is causing worldwide economic collapse and how you can best avoid being a victim of it by reading these last two links.

Who do you know that could use this information? Make a difference today by emailing them the link to this post. Write it down and hand it to them. If you’re ambitious print it out and give it to the businesses you use. Use the TwitThis button and add @usernames to make sure others see your Tweet.

HOW TO USE COMMENTLUV:

• NEW from Kikolani: How to Build Links to HubPages Using CommentLuv

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While Google is promptly indexing content from some very active bloggers:

Murray's posts are indexed within the hour. See the notation "48 minutes ago" in this image.

The number of backlinks they are counting compared to Yahoo! and Bing continues to decline:

Change in GrowMap backlinks being reported by Google, Yahoo and Bing

This information comes from the free test version of MazeCore Monitor we are currently testing.  It shows our indexed links at Google and Yahoo are down -1 and -374 respectively while our links in Bing are up 4 and backlinks at Bing are up +1280!

MazeCore Monitor Backlinks for GrowMap

The dark blue line on the bottom is Google, the red line is Yahoo and the huge increase shown on the orange line is Bing. Does anyone else wonder why Google only counts 28 backlinks, Yahoo counts 1,647 and Bing counts 5,090?

Could Bing be counting Social Networking activity? What do YOU think?

MazeCore Monitor certainly looks interesting. The free version allows you to track one Web site and three keyword phrases.

What the MazeCore Monitor SEO Tool does